Sleeping apart due to snoring could improve relationships, scientist says

Move into separate rooms can mark a new beginning as couple are well rested and happier, claims expert

Sleeping in separate rooms due to a snoring partner could improve people's relationships rather than marking the end, a leading sleep scientist has said.

Couples moving into separate rooms can enter the beginning of a new relationship", where they are well rested and, ideally, happier, according to Russell Foster, a professor of circadian neuroscience at the University of Oxford and director of the Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology.